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Imprint: Vintage Digital
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Published: 04/09/2014
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ISBN: 9781448104741
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Length: 240 Pages
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RRP: £8.99
Nobel prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison’s debut novel immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family – Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola – in post-Depression 1940s Ohio.
Unlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows. At once intimate and expansive, unsparing in its truth-telling, The Bluest Eye shows how the past savagely defines the present.
‘Discovering a writer like Toni Morrison is rarest of pleasures’ Washington Post
Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction
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Imprint: Vintage Digital
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Published: 04/09/2014
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ISBN: 9781448104741
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Length: 240 Pages
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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"Not only a story but an awe-inspiring poem that confronts beauty itself."
Guardian
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"So charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry"
New York Times
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"I imagine if our greatest American novelist, William Faulkner, were alive today he would herald Toni Morrison's emergence as a kindred spirit... Discovering a writer like Toni Morrison is the rarest of pleasures"
Washington Post
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"The Bluest Eye is a fine book, a lament for all starved and stunted children everywhere"
Daily Telegraph
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"Morrison's style rivets the reader...her synaesthetic, often rhythmic, even chanting prose recalls both Faulkner and Emily Dickinson"
The Times Literary Supplement
